EP02: Mary of Nazareth and Tonantzin

Feminist archaeologist Laura joins us again as your two gay lapsed-Catholic hosts dig into why we still love Mary of Nazareth, who is absolutely a mother goddess, and how she’s fused with several other moms over the years and come to mean so much to the very pious and the very homosexual. Also: Unitarian Universalist Pagan Feminist Lesbian Inter-species Nativity Scenes!

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mother goddesses, maiden mother crone, TERFs, Mary of Nazareth, gay moms, adoptive moms, trans moms, seven sorrows, the mother of God was pro-choice, veneration versus worship, seven joys, Catholic jokes, Unitarian Universalism, Virgin of Guadalupe, colonialism, Juan Diego, Tonantzin

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EP01: Mother Goddesses in the Archaeological Record

Happy Mother’s Day! This inaugural episode of Mothers and Others features our archaeologist friend Laura as we discuss what actual material history has to say about the ultimate primordial mom: our long lost mother goddesses.

Topics Touched:

mother goddesses, maiden mother crone, neopagans, feminist archaeology, wicca phases, neoclassicism, the stone age, vikings, warrior princess skeletons, bioessentialism, birthing hips, TERFs, tumblr feminism, little feets, fat people have always existed, neanderthals, the paleo diet

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